Projects list grows, more needed

6:35 PM,
Oct. 19, 2012

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Written by

Annie Oeth

I'd like to run out of counting fingers. You see, the Make A Difference Day website, makeadifferenceday.com, has 10 projects in Mississippi within a 100-mile radius of Jackson, including The Clarion-Ledger's project at Stewpot Community Services.

These are 10 very worthy projects, all set for Oct. 27, but we need to count up more on the Make A Difference Day database between now and then, as projects on the database are eligible to win a $10,000 donation from Newman's Own. I don't know of many causes that have so much funding that volunteers would turn way $10,000, and some cause has to win it. ...